Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A weakening but immense storm came ashore in Louisiana, and the failure of New Orleans's levees turned a hurricane into a catastrophe.
At dawn on a Kazakh steppe, a single blast shattered the American nuclear monopoly and recast the entire Cold War.
A wooden two-wheeler with training wheels and a half-horsepower engine became the unlikely ancestor of every motorcycle.
With two coils wound on an iron ring, Faraday caught a needle twitching and uncovered the principle behind every electric generator.
